signandsight: Chernobyl: the unreadable sign
“Chernobyl changed space, but politicians still talk about things in terms of today, there, nearby, foreign. It’s so strange. What does near or far mean when the cloud was hanging over Europe on the second day and over China on the fourth? Even a country that doesn’t build reactors will be […]
OPOLIS: A Comix Fluxture
“A street plan of Opolis, an imaginary city, will be laid out on the floor of the Flux main space. Individual city blocks will be assigned to individual cartoonists. These cartoonists will design the buildings and environments that will fill the city blocks (apartment buildings, libraries, factories, zoos, museums, slums, prisons, etc), […]
We posted the NY Times story about mock Iraqi villages in Nevada, and now here’s Wired reporting on Baghdad, USA, a.k.a. the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
“The 4,000 guardsmen here for these late-winter exercises will encounter 500 soldiers from the 509th, 500 support staff, a dozen Apache and Blackhawk combat helicopters, 30 […]
Desmond DekkerJuly 16, 1941 – May 25, 2006
Best known outside Jamaica for The Israelites, Dekker’s music was instrumental in giving voice to the Black diaspora and the social, political and economic plights of the (post)colonies. The song was released four years after Jamaican independence from Britain and popularised in the UK, in […]
Advice in response to the question - “A reporter has asked me to send a copy of my (unpublished work-in progress) thesis research they found mentioned in a conference programme - should I?” There is no hard and fast answer, but I wrote back:
You can send it, but the name of the game is […]